Live Music Now News

We are excited to announce the launch of a very ambitious new initative, led by Live Music Now, funded by the Baring Foundation. Our musicians currently work in hundreds of care homes around the UK, but there are so many thousands more we… [read more]

This year, Live Music Now Scotland celebrates its 30th birthday. A blazing trail of commissions has followed in the charity's wake. In recognition of these three decades of achievements, Delphian has taken a snapshot of LMN's activity, itself a miniature picture of the wider… [read more]

"There is real potential at the moment for musicians to create their own career out of genuinely creative projects working with vulnerable people, and I think that’s a very encouraging sign for the future." LMN musician Tom Sherman has been working with our North… [read more]

“It reminded me of why I wanted to be a musician in the first place.” On Wednesday 8 April, at St Margaret's Activity Centre run by Open Age in London, an LMN session took place for people from the local community and residents from… [read more]

Today would have been the 99th birthday of our inspirational founder Yehudi Menuhin. He was born in New York on this day in 1916, and made his first public appearance aged 7, as a solo violinist with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. He went… [read more]

Live Music Now is helping forge an ambitious arts and health movement in Shropshire, led by Dr Jane Povey. Together, we hope to bring live music and arts participation to all members of the community. Jane has been a GP for twenty years… [read more]

LMN South East ensemble Tir Eolas are an eclectic alternative-folk group who draw on their Celtic and English folk roots to create their unique combination of traditional folk and original material. The group first took form busking on the streets of London and have… [read more]

Last month, we addressed a group of MPs, peers and sector leaders at the House of Lords to discuss the potential for live music to play a greater role in society. Our musicians have seen countless times how their music can dramatically change the… [read more]

The Rhinegold Charity Fund, which offers £10,000-worth of advertising spend across Rhinegold’s wide range of classical music and education publications,websites and services, has been awarded to Live Music Now and Young Classical Artists Trust for the 2015/16 financial year. Ciaran Morton, managing… [read more]

Following the retirement of Professor David Saint, Birmingham Conservatoire announced this week that Julian Lloyd Webber will be taking over as its new Principal next month. The news has been greeted with great excitement by the conservatoire, in Birmingham, and throughout the music and… [read more]